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HEADLINES: Full-Time Jobs Disappearing Under ObamaCare

The president’s failed policies are generating plenty of fodder for late-night laughs, but his health care law – and the disastrous impact it’s having on jobs – is no joke for the millions of Americans who can’t find full-time work in the Obama economy. As the president heads to Leno tonight, here are a few recent headlines we sure hope he won’t be “chuckling” at:

In the wake of the most recent jobs report, Keith Hall, a senior researcher at George Mason University’s Mercatus Center, tells McClatchy that “over the last six months, of the net job creation, 97 percent of that is part-time work,” attributing the lack of full-time job growth in part to “employers shifting workers to part-time status to avoid coming health care obligations.” The Associated Press has a similar take, noting that some employers are adding a disproportionate number of part-time jobs “to sidestep the new health care law’s” employer mandate.

The White House’s delay in the employer mandate last month provides “little practical relief for businesses,” Sally Pipes writes in Forbes today, and “simply gives them one more year to react — by cutting benefits, trimming hours, or reducing staff.” It’s also unfair to the rest of Americans, who are still on the hook for the president’s health care law, even as his administration struggles with its implementation (more here).

House Republicans have taken action to protect all Americans by delaying the ObamaCare mandates on employers and individuals, and President Obama himself has signed seven bills that dismantle or defund other parts of this train wreck. That effort will continue under House Republicans’ Plan for Economic Growth & Jobs that calls for repealing and replacing the president’s health care law with better solutions that will lower costs and protect jobs. Read the full plan at gop.gov/jobs.